Indicative of an empty fuel tank to me!

Stuart

-----Original Message-----
From: Vanagon Mailing List [mailto:vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com] On Behalf Of
Richard Smith
Sent: Monday, November 24, 2014 12:49 PM
To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
Subject: Hard start on a slant?

The other day I parked at a peculiar angle - uphill and sloped to the side
(a diagonal parking spot, on a fairly steep hill) - and found my Westy (�85,
unmodified, about 170,000km) very hard to start. It just wouldn�t catch. 

I eventually got it started with lots of massaging on the gas pedal and a
quick bang into reverse to get it onto a more normal (though uphill) slope.
Managed to get it up to the top of that hill, onto the flat, and it ran fine
after that. Never had a problem before (or since) on hills�

Is a �side hill hard start� a known problem? Indicative of other problems?

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